Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images The heir of top Putin crony Igor Sechin died suddenly at the age of 35 earlier this month and his death was apparently kept secret from the public.Ivan Sechin, the son of Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, had been working at the oil giant alongside his father since 2014, and was awarded the For Merit to the Fatherland medal in 2015 by Vladimir Putin for his “many years of conscientious work.” He was 26 at the time.The younger Sechin’s death was never officially announced; it
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The death of Mr Sechin had not been reported until Vladimir Putin critic Leonid Nevzlin drew attention to a new record in the national register of inheritance cases.